Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words

This, Quatro's sixth studio LP, was released after she moved from the United States to Britain. It is her last studio album before she decided not to renew her contract with record producer Mickie Most's RAK Records label. (Instead she signed a contract with Dreamland Records, which had been set up by songwriters/producers Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn).^[3]: 4

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AllMusic	[4]
Smash Hits	7½10[5]

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Writing for Smash Hits in 1979, Red Starr described the album as "ten immediately accessible chunks of bouncy, straightforward pop-rock".^[5] In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Donald A. Guarisco sees Quatro as making "a strong return to her hard-rocking roots" with the album. Example "bracing rocker" tracks are "I've Never Been in Love" and "She's in Love with You". These are "judiciously balanced with a string of tuneful, keyboard-based mid-tempo tunes" such as "Hollywood" and the "pop-inflected reggae groove" of "Four Letter Words". Guarisco feels that the downside of the album is that "many of the songs recycle the same double-time backbeat" and singles out "You Are My Lover" whose melody "is minimalist to the point of being repetitive". He concludes that:

"Despite these minor problems, Suzi...and Other Four Letter Words remains a solid slab of rock that is guaranteed to please the Suzi Quatro fanbase."^[4]

By August 2012^[update] Suzi...and Other Four Letter Words (1979) was still Quatro's highest-charting album in Norway, beating both Quatro (1974), which reached number 5, and Suzi Quatro (1973), which reached number 6.^[6] It was also her second-highest-charting album in the United States, behind If You Knew Suzi... (1978), which reached number 37 in The Billboard 200.^[7]

1. "I've Never Been in Love" (Melissa A. Connell) – 3:02
2. "Mind Demons" (Suzi Quatro, Len Tuckey) – 2:25
3. "She's in Love with You" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 3:32
4. "Hollywood" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 2:57
5. "Four Letter Words" (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:27
6. "Mama's Boy" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 3:35
7. "Starlight Lady" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 3:36
8. "You Are My Lover" (Jack Lee) – 3:12
9. "Space Cadets" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 4:18
10. "Love Hurts" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 2:45

• Suzi Quatro – lead vocals, bass guitar, writer
• Len Tuckey – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, writer
• Jamie Crompton – guitar, backing vocals
• Bill Hurd – keyboard, backing vocals
• Dave Neal – drums

Technical

• Dave Tickle – engineer
• Peter Coleman – engineer
• Glenn Ross – art direction
• Norman Seeff – photography
• Steve Hall – mastering
• Nicky Chinn – writer
• Mike Chapman – producer, writer